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Basically, the concept of circular economy means designing products wastes, products and processes that facilitate disassembly and reuse, and define business models for manufacturers to be financially incentivized to collect, manufacture and re-distribute the products they make. This philosophy, which is increasingly akz taking force in society, has left us in recent months curious examples of initiatives that are trying to raise awareness of the benefits. This time we want to talk about a very efficient toasters.
Having found that low repair small appliances and a disproportionate cost of recycling costs of such devices had the effect that 88% of such appliances ended up in the trash, officials of the London studio The Agency of Design decided to think of products akz designed to not be disposed easily and put their bit in the battle against obsolescence. Thus three types of toasters akz Optimistic, Realistic and Pragmatic were created.
The optimistic or toaster designed akz to last forever toaster, akz based his design on a solid piece of aluminum, recyclable material high value, about which I have spoken on other occasions, and can be infinitely recyclable. To fulfill its function, the toaster has two folding arms manually and through four screws placed at its base you can easily access the interior, if necessary do some kind of repair or replacement of parts.
The pragmatic toaster, akz meanwhile, is a model in which each slot for the slice of bread is a separate attachable piece. With this system, the creators wanted to solve the typical problem that arises when some slots toaster stops working, leaving a portion of the device unusable. The thin thickness of each slot and easy coupling system would drop seamlessly share with potential problems besides facilitating their arrangement.
The realistic model, meanwhile, is a prototype, the cost would reach just 6 euros. In this case argues for a design that should be discarded through standardized collection channels waste would move the products to specific treatment centers where they pile up into lots according to the producer of the device and then return them to their original factories, where through a vacuum system removal companies could recover the pieces of value for reuse in new products.
Despite the experience, developers of The Design Agency are aware of the problems that the economy is still facing a circular to develop. First, akz and as a warning on its website, more work is needed akz for manufacturers to have a real motivation for designing this type of product. In the current state of the system, if the end only the recycler will benefit, companies will not want to participate, says one of the founders of the study. Also, the design of the three prototypes has helped them realize that it makes no sense to design a product for disassembly if finally the appliance ends in a treatment plant and in it, in a crushing machine that generate products of low quality . The debate is open, do you think the economy is feasible loop ?, you know other examples of products or companies that have implemented this philosophy?
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